3:00 AM ET Jozi Stars 230 for 3 (Hendricks 104*, Rickleton 45) beat Durban Heat 177 (va Wyk 66, Rabada 4-27) by 53 runs Reeza Hendricks cracked the maiden century of the Mzansi Super League as Jozi Stars buried Durban Heat under a mountain of runs to climb to third place on the table with a dominant 53-run win. Asked to bat on a belter in Johannesburg, Stars’ batsmen pulverised…
Jonny Bairstow is back in the England side at No. 3 3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Kerala Knights 126 for 3 (Bairstow 84*) beat Bengal Tigers 123 for 5 by seven wickets Jonny Bairstow made the most of his brief stopover at the T10 League in Sharjah, smashing a remarkable 84 not from 24 balls as Kerala Knights beat Bengal Tigers by seven wickets with eight balls to spare. Bairstow,…
12:39 PM ET Barney Read Former Pakistan allrounder Shahid Afridi has put his weight behind T10 cricket, saying the new format could be cricket’s gateway into the Olympics. Afridi, playing in his second season of the T10 League with the Pakhtoons, said he has been greatly encouraged by the league’s growth and sees ten-over cricket as the perfect format for introducing a wider audience to the game. “I think this…
Fakhar Zaman stretches forward to defend © AFP Pakistan suffered a major blow ahead of their tour of South Africa in December with Fakhar Zaman aggravating his knee injury. According to the PCB, the 28-year old opener is expected to be out for “three to five” weeks. That means he is almost certainly out of contention for the first of the three Tests that begins on Boxing Day in Centurion….
Heino Kuhn goes after the ball © MSL Nelson Mandela Bay Giants 168 for 9 (Kuhn 54, Paterson 2-26) beat Paarl Rocks 120 (Markram 50, Smuts 3-17, Magala 3-17) by 48 runs Heino Kuhn‘s second fifty of the competition and cheap wickets for JT Smuts and Sisanda Magala set up a 48-run victory for Nelson Mandela Bay Giants over Paarl Rocks at St George’s Park in Port Elizabeth. Kuhn was…
10:19 AM ET In the aftermath of the controversial omission of senior Indian player Mithali Raj in the Women’s World T20 semi-final, the BCCI is looking for a new head coach, in effect choosing to not extend the tenure of interim coach Ramesh Powar, which began in September and ran till the World T20. Needs to be a Level C qualified coach Should have played international cricket, orCoached an international…
9:56 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff Ireland will begin their first overseas Test match on St Patrick’s Day – March 17 – when they take on Afghanistan next year, in what will be a second Test outing for both of the game’s newest senior nations. The Test will be the culmination of a nine-match itinerary, which will also include three T20Is on February 23, 24 and 26, and five ODIs on…
3:00 AM ET ESPNcricinfo staff India A 248 for 4 (Shankar 60*, Easwaran 56, Bracewell 2-43) v New Zealand A Fading light and sporadic rain meant that only 69 overs were possible in Whangarei, but India A made some progress, with the help of half centuries from opener Abhimanyu Easwaran and allrounder Vijay Shankar to go to stumps on 248 for four against New Zealand A in the third unofficial…
5:35 AM ET Madushka Balasuriya According to the new chief selector Ashantha de Mel, Sri Lanka are hoping to give some of their out-of-favour batsmen a chance by announcing an extended 17-member touring squad for the upcoming two-Test series in New Zealand. “One of the reasons for extending the touring squad to 17 players was so that we could include the likes of [Sadeera] Samarawickrama and [Lahiru] Thirimanne,” de Mel…
3:52 AM ET Mushfiqur Rahim became the second Bangladeshi batsman to reach 4000 Test runs. Needing only eight runs to reach the milestone, he got there against West Indies in the Dhaka Test when he cut legspinner Devendra Bishoo off the back foot in the 65th over. Earlier this year, Tamim Iqbal had become the first to reach the mark in West Indies. Mushfiqur, who made his debut in 2005…